Last week OFAC released its typically opaque monthly report on recently imposed civil penalties. This report reveals that, once again, the full force of the Federal government was brought to bear on two hapless web surfers who bought some Cuban…
Steve Clemons, a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and a popular blogger who blogs at The Washington Note, has announced that he will soon be starting The Havana Note. He bills this new blog as a “new resource…
Captain Ted Baier and his charter fishing boat “Lethal Weapon” went fishing in March 2003 and encountered Jaws — or, at least, the jaws of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). According to charging letters and settlement agreements just…
For a moment yesterday, it looked like the tide had started to turn on the embargo on Cuba. A press release from the Center for Democracy in the Americas announced that Rep. Dan Burton had agreed to support the Cuban-American…
The ninth annual Habanos Festival just wound up in Havana. The festival, a five day celebration of Cuban cigars, attracts cigar enthusiasts from all over the world — including the United States. You really have to like Cuban cigars to…